As teachers, we meet May and June with bittersweetness. On one hand, we are relieved for the summer vacation, but on the other hand we are often saddened by saying goodbye to our students. Take a look at these 17 teachers' evaluations of the school year. Please comment on their sites if you had similar feelings. I think we can all relate to most of their sentiments.
1. MissTeacha does a student survey at the end of the year that really shapes her next semester. Take a look at her kids' interesting responses here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
2. This teacher at the "Thoughts on Teaching" blog gives a hard look at the school year and ponders changes for next year.
3. Jeff Utecht, a high school teacher in Thailand, posted his personal and professional accomplishments, failures, and goals for next year.
4. Ed consultant Angela Watson shares 8 things she learned this year in NYC middle schools.
5. Donalyn Miller, a renowned teacher who guides her middle schoolers to read 40+ novels per year, gets introspective about her last day of school here.
6. You'll be impressed by the collaborative, tech-heavy final exam that Shelley Blake Plock gives his Western Civilization class.
7. Josh Stumpenhorst accomplished a great deal with his middle school Language Arts students, including a school-wide lip dub, innovation day, and standards-based grading.
8. This Spanish teacher tackles her biggest challenges this school year, especially with projects.
9. Humanities teachers, Stephen and Chad, set goals at the beginning of the year. Here and here they revisit them to see how/if the goals were accomplished.
10. This California teacher shares what his students thought about their blogs this year.
11. To friend or not to friend your students on Facebook this summer? Leslie Healey answers here.
12. This teacher decided to wrap up his year by documenting how he spends his summer. Check out every hour he spends preparing for the next school year.
13. Look at how adorable these kindergartners are on their last day of school.
14. Brent Vasicek and Mary Blow share some tips for us to help improve our new semesters.
15. Finally, don't miss this heartfelt letter from a teacher to her students on the last day of school.
What a great collection of posts! Thank you for including me. :-)
ReplyDeleteI wonder if there's a way to look at the variety of reflection methods represented here and come up with some common features of effective reflection. I don't want to take away from the art involved in all this, but I'd love to give some guidelines to new teachers who find it challenging to engage in this kind of thing.
ReplyDeleteNice gathering here, ATL! And thanks for thinking to list me.
Thanks for sharing these out and for including my post!
ReplyDeleteAll the best,
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